A. family
B. kinship
C. network
D. tribe
Related Mcqs:
- What term describes ties between individuals established through marriage or blood ?
A. family
B. kinship
C. network
D. tribe - Which term describes marriage patterns in contemporary Britain ?
A. flexible monogamy
B. serial monogamy
C. liquid monogamy
D. reflexive monogamy - Which term describes families in which at least one adult has children from a previous marriage or relationship ?
A. beanpole families
B. cohabiting families
C. reconstituted families
D. horizontal families - Which term describes families in which at least one adult has children from a previous marriage or relationship ?
A. beanpole families
B. cohabiting families
C. reconstituted families
D. horizontal families - Merton describes types of response to a situation where there are widely socially endorsed values but limited means of achieving them Which of his types describes an acceptance of the values but willingness to use any means to achieve them ?
A. conformists
B. innovators
C. ritualists
D. retreatists - Merton describes types of response to a situation where there are widely socially endorsed values but limited means of achieving them. Which of his types describes an acceptance of the values but willingness to use any means to achieve them?
A. Conformists
B. innovators
C. ritualists
D. retrealists - According to Durkheim stronger social ties and religious affiliation______________?
A. Increase the suicide rates
B. Decrease them
C. Have no effect upon them
D. None of these - Which term describes societies where the family name and the inheritance of property passes down the male line ?
A. matrilineal
B. androlineal
C. homolineal
D. patrilineal - Which term describes the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life ?
A. secularization
B. evangelicalism
C. fundamentalism
D. alienation - What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives ?
A. open mobility
B. lateral mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. intergenerational mobility
